Temminck's courser

Temminck's courser (Cursorius temminckii) is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa. It is noted for laying its dark ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.^[2][3][4]

Temminck's courser
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Glareolidae
Genus:	Cursorius
Species:	C. temminckii
Binomial name
Cursorius temminckii Swainson, 1822

Subspecies

There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:^[5]

• C. t. temminckii, (Swainson, 1822): Senegal to Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania
• C. t. ruvanensis, (Madarász, 1915): southern Tanzania to Angola, Mozambique & northeast South Africa
• C. t. aridus, (Clancey, 1989): northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe

This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.^[6]